Viewnior

[farinet at arcor.de]

Am 07.04.2014 23:52, schrieb lubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com:
> I have never heard of this program before, but when I searched it
> I found the page you probably know about
> http://xsisqox.github.io/Viewnior/download.html
> To compile it seems pretty simple... however, you may need to go in the 
> make file and change some of the dependency names, as Ubuntu/Debian use 
> some very different names for certain libraries.
> you could open the make file and find the package names, and (simply?) 
> change them to the correct ones.
> Though, in reality you should probably contact the dev
> siyan.panayotov at gmail.com
> And I think it would be much easier to go about figuring it out this way.
> 
> So, YES there is a way... this is GNU/Linux there is always a way, some 
> just take a lot of time and effort :D

Thanks for your reply. Either you've running already lubuntu 14.04 and
there the libraries needed to compile Viewnior are the right ones or you
did not really compile it: if you do './configure' you're getting a list
of files which are not recent enough to create the Makefile. Here is the
list:

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configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.20
glib-2.0 >= 2.32              gio-2.0 >= 2.32
shared-mime-info >= 0.20              gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.4.0
   exiv2 >= 0.21) were not met:

No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
No package 'exiv2' found
--------------

Now, i do not have in mind to do bricolage up to the point to try to
find somewhere (debian testing maybe) the needed packages. That's the
reason why i also tried the .deb package of Viewnior i found among the
Debian packages. But there too i'm getting unfullfilled dependencies
(the first one: libfontconfig1 is too old).

I think i'll wait for 14.04 and then retry. Btw, for me Viewnior is a
really nice and very small imageviewer. Have a look at.

Thanks again!